The Snapshots in Time Collection
Handwritten Letter Closing with APO Address, ASN 39119645, 778th Bomb Squadron, 464th Bombardment Group (H), 1944
The closing lines of a 1944 letter home from an airman of the 778th Bombardment Squadron, 464th Bombardment Group (Heavy) -- a B-24 Liberator unit of the Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy. The writer provides his APO mailing address, a small but telling detail of the vast wartime postal network connecting airmen overseas to their families. Project: 218355